Ragas and Raginis: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.196
Rāgas and Rāginīs: A Pictorial and Iconographic Study of Indian Musical Modes Based on Original Sources c10.196
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"Now the picture (image) of Velāvalī is written: For the purpose of meeting her beloved in the trysting-place, she is putting on her jewels, (sitting) on the terrace; and she is repeatedly recalling and invoking her favourite deity—the god of love; her complexion is like the colour of blue lotus. A rāgiṇī visualised as above, one should recognize as Velāvalī."¹